Hilltop: A Literary Paper. Volume 1 Number 2

2 Sea Change

2 Sea Change

From dunes where once the Maori ovens burningCalcined the clay, and now the groundlark nestsAmong swordgrass, I watch where the bland sea restsIn Ovidian deluge over fields, and spurningTangle of stack and byre high on the smoking crestsTill but the primeval tumuli remain, drowned breastsSuckling limitless ocean, the land to womb returning.